EMBODIED

bodied, corporal, corporate, embodied, incarnate

(adjective) possessing or existing in bodily form; “what seemed corporal melted as breath into the wind”- Shakespeare; “an incarnate spirit”; “‘corporate’ is an archaic term”

EMBODY

embody, be, personify

(verb) represent, as of a character on stage; “Derek Jacobi was Hamlet”

incarnate, body forth, embody, substantiate

(verb) represent in bodily form; “He embodies all that is evil wrong with the system”; “The painting substantiates the feelings of the artist”

embody

(verb) represent or express something abstract in tangible form; “This painting embodies the feelings of the Romantic period”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

embodied

simple past tense and past participle of embody

Source: Wiktionary


EMBODY

Em*bod"y, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Embodied; p. pr. & vb. n. Embodying.]

Definition: To form into a body; to invest with a body; to collect into a body, a united mass, or a whole; to incorporate; as, to embody one's ideas in a treatise. [Written also imbody.] Devils embodied and disembodied. Sir W. Scott. The soul, while it is embodied, can no more be divided from sin. South.

Em*bod"y, v. i.

Definition: To unite in a body, a mass, or a collection; to coalesce. [Written also imbody.] Firmly to embody against this court party. Burke.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

26 November 2024

TRANSPOSITION

(noun) (music) playing in a different key from the key intended; moving the pitch of a piece of music upwards or downwards


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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by AlcaldĂ­a Municipal de ChinchinĂĄ (Colombia) at Parque de BolĂ­var, ChinchinĂĄ, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.

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